Enlightenment? Everything.

 

Published in Ink the Universe (2022) – a Wingless Dreamer anthology that has been available through Amazon (the link to the

listing is embedded in the image below) – this work arose from the creative self-translation of material originally composed in

Chinese, Sanskrit, Koine Greek, Latin and Old Norse.

 

 

       

 

 

 

Enlightenment? Everything

 
 The concept of ‘universal love’ (as promoted by Mòzǐ and his followers),

darkness, indelibly marking punishments, embezzlement,

poetry, essays, painting, learning, knowledge,

slander, ink and even Mexico –

the river …

all of eternal existence.


Eternally,

the universe rains …

myriad and miscellaneous

(including the concept of ‘universal love’).


Darkness, drinking, protecting, cherishing,

preservation, breath, life, nature,

the body, the mind, understanding,

effort, firmness, the sun and fire?


Lord Brahma’s egg

(characteristics of the inconceivably vast cosmos).


Ink?


Damp or wet.


You all?


When undivided,

healthy and capable.


Darkening waters?


You are all in it together.


Pallor, the disagreeable, mildew, alarm, terror,

the enlightening, fortune, happiness and favourability

in abundance?


Your whole world.

 

 

 

This work also appears in Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) where it is published with specially designed illustrations

(the color variant accompanies the literary work and the grayscale variant is shown separately [both are displayed below]).

 

 

Jagat

The Universe

Colored variant

  

Jagat

The Universe

Grayscale variant

 

To purchase a copy of Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring (2023) through Amazon, click on the hyperlink embedded in the

image below.

 

 

 

To purchase a copy, click on the

hyperlink embedded in the image

above and order through Amazon.

  

Arete: Enlightening Poetry and Coloring is a coloring book

for adults with a twist. It presents timeless, relevant and

entertaining poetic commentaries with over 40 specially

designed illustrations prepared by the author using

text-to-image AI programs informed by the poetry.

 

Color variants of the designs appear with the poetry and

grayscale variants are shown separately. Intended to

provide an immersive and interactive meditative

experience, the collection will nourish the mind and

soul.

 

Beginner and advanced colorists alike will find the range

of illustrations satisfy, challenge and extend their skills –

and provide ample opportunity to reflect on the matters

explored in both the text and images.

 

The poetry shown includes a portion of the author’s works

that were first published in online and traditional print

anthologies and magazines including: POETiCA REViEW;

Impspired; New Note Poetry; The Antonym; Written Tales;

Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts; Wingless Dreamer

anthologies (My Glorious Quill, Garden of poets, Still, I rise,

Let’s begin again, Oxymorons and poets, Midsummer’s Eve,

War scars in my heart,  Mother, a title just above queen,

Ink the Universe, The Black Haven, Summer Fireflies,

Paranormal Whispers and Sea and Seashore); MindFull,

New World Writing; Red Door Magazine; A Poem A Day;

Mercury Retrograde; Family; and Soul.

 

 

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